I am aware that many people here seem to have enjoyed the podcast discussions that John Christensen and I have had over the last 6 to 9 months on my YouTube channel.
Unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm has not liked these and other podcasts we have made. Lacking in its own imagination, that algorithm rewards consistency, and when we post a podcast that is around 45 minutes long, it sees something inconsistent with our average 12-minute video, and then it not only does not promote it as a consequence, but it actively punishes us for the next few days by not promoting the videos that follow as well. This has been, to be polite, deeply frustrating.
However, creating a Substack channel provides us with an alternative platform for publishing video outside the YouTube framework. In fact, achieving that goal was one of the reasons for creating that Substack channel.
As a result, John and I are restarting our conversations, and I hope that in due course, Steve Keen and I might do so as well, and that others might get involved too. You never know, I might even persuade Jacqueline to get in front of a camera, because in many ways she would be my ideal podcast guest, because she has such an interesting perspective on the world.
All this being said, you can find my latest conversation with John, and a summary of it, on my Substack channel this morning, here. No subscription of any sort is required. The channel is free. You just have to click the link. That is all there is to it, and please note, this is the first in a series that John and I are planning to explore our concerns around the environment, neoliberalism, our campaigning on these issues, and how we think discussion in this area should develop.
I can also try to share it here, but I cannot be sure this will work as on YouTube this is an unlisted video, and it cannot be seen there by most people so it does not upset our algorithm. Maybe you can let me know:
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It is on YT
But unlisted
Someone needs to tell YouTube to “F the right off”; while we are at it, give Google a shout out too.
I have had all types of problems finding episodes, from many different creators, that I am looking for even when I am tuned into their channel.
The problem is not the “creators” it is YouTube. If YouTube is not careful, they will ruin what they have created just as Google did with the “Advance Search” function. “Advance Search” has been completely ruined with the new update incarnation.
Much to agree with
I remained very interested throughout this podcast and was left wanting to hear more. I think your stopping of the conversation at 45 minutes was important in this regard. Too many podcasts lose listeners permanently, I suspect, by going on for too long.
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I did spend 45 minutes watching the video and enjoyed it. I did find parts of it touched on my life although I have not reached the distinction you two have, My male relatives all went to Victoria college but due to parents’ divorce I came to England, a secondary modern and left at 16 to earn as my mother was on benefits. I worked as a clerk and in a factory ( liked it even at 3 shillings ten and one-eight of a penny per hour. The basic week was cut from 42 to 40 hours and they had to pay us the same as they had before ! Trade Unions still had power in 1965 )
I did go -without A levels to Teacher Training College- but was offered a B Ed at Reading in my 3rd Year but I needed to earn. A year later I enquired about an External degree at London Univ. To do history I had to have a Latin O level. Didn’t do it at my sec Mod but then Labour created the Open University- a real achievement. The new Conservative Chancellor was going to cancel it but, fortunately for us, he died unexpectedly.
After I completed the degree I looked for a new activity and helped set up a branch of the Ecology party in 1980. Met interesting people like Gundula Dorey at Bristol and, like you, Jonathan Porritt. I decided after 2 years I could do more elsewhere and years at Samaritans took me into counselling and I was interested in the links with spirituality. My politics moved left but I am a social democrat rather than a socialist.
And I think a connection we share is that we care about others. It is why you both did what you did.
Thank you for sharing.
There were several moments in our lives which caused ideas to germinate but they bear fruit, maybe, years later.
One was a moment in my GCE history class. The school was raising money for a swimming pool. My history teacher Mr Clark said, ‘when I was a new teacher we raised money to buy shoe leather for children whose parents couldn’t afford to buy it.’
There was a stunned silence. ‘Why was that?’
‘The unemployment.’
‘Could it happen again?’
‘No, we know how to control it now.’
He didn’t explain but in my casual reading a few years later, I came across Keynes.
Recently I came across a 1960s Penguin school history textbook the loft. It explained why Keynes had an answer to the 1931 crisis. I imagine we don’t find it textbooks today.
The other was, in the 1970s, reading about something called Social Credit which has some connection to MMT but I couldn’t see then how it worked.
Then I discovered your blog and the ideas -as John said- crystallised. Maybe many of your readers will get the big picture more quickly than I did. That is IMHO the value of your work.
Thank you
Appreciated
Found fine from this link thanks. About to listen on my day off.
Thanks